scrambled display - ABA DSS

**lazybuoy** · January 29th, 2008

I have a coolsat 6000. Today I noticed that the display is jumping from all dashes to zeros (are these the night rider lights?). I can put a foctory flash on it and the numbers on the display seem normal. When I put the new bin on it it goes back to all dashes and zeros again. Never had this problem before. What am I missing here? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

**boboisno1** · January 29th, 2008

Is your box running hot?

**jc7257** · January 29th, 2008

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Originally Posted by lazybuoy

I have a coolsat 6000. Today I noticed that the display is jumping from all dashes to zeros (are these the night rider lights?). I can put a foctory flash on it and the numbers on the display seem normal. When I put the new bin on it it goes back to all dashes and zeros again. Never had this problem before. What am I missing here? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Try loading the factory file in your STB. Write down your sat settings. The factory flash will erase everything. Now load the newest bin and re-enter your sat settings and rescan the sats...

**lazybuoy** · January 29th, 2008

I put the factory flash on it and when I put the newest bin back on, the display goes haywire.

**jc7257** · January 29th, 2008

Are you sure you are putting the correct bin in???
Should be this bin...
http://www.abadss.com/forum/857-cool...0080129-a.html

**lazybuoy** · January 29th, 2008

Yeah, thats the one.

**boboisno1** · January 29th, 2008

Is your stb in a wall unit or something where it's getting real hot?

**lazybuoy** · January 29th, 2008

Heat is definetley not the problem.

**jc7257** · January 29th, 2008

Try unplugging the unit and let it sit for a while. Could be getting hot like boboisno1 says. This will give the unit time to cool down. Then retry loading the bin...

**jc7257** · January 29th, 2008

If your sure heat is not the problem, has to be internal problem that will take a shop to fix. Factory flash and hard reboot fixes a lot of problems, but sometimes its internal electronic problem...

**boboisno1** · January 29th, 2008

Heat is usually the cause, but from the screen readings you have been getting, and the inability to load a factory file it sounds like maybe a 1000uF 10V capacitor on the power supply board might be blown. If the tops are slightly rounded upwards - they are blown they should be totally flat. This might not be the problem but it is sounding a lot like the same symptoms. I have a pic of the capacitors if needed.

**RICKSBEACH** · January 29th, 2008

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Originally Posted by lazybuoy

I have a coolsat 6000. Today I noticed that the display is jumping from all dashes to zeros (are these the night rider lights?). I can put a foctory flash on it and the numbers on the display seem normal. When I put the new bin on it it goes back to all dashes and zeros again. Never had this problem before. What am I missing here? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

ALSO WELCOME TO THE SITE..

**lazybuoy** · January 29th, 2008

Thanks RICKSBEACH. Unfortunately my gut feeling is that the box is toast. What in your opinion is the box of choice today.